🚨Municipal and school board elections are coming up. Find and tag your local candidates in these #QuestionsForTrustees to find out where they stand on anti-hate issues. ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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#QuestionsForTrustees 2: Will you support renaming schools that are named after individuals associated with historical atrocities, like the residential school system and transatlantic slavery?
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#QuestionsForTrustees 3: Will you support the formation of 2SLGBTQ+ clubs in schools?
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#QuestionsForTrustees 4: Will you support the implementation of evidence-based anti-racist policies and programs?
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🚨🚨Elections aren't won on Twitter. The far-right is outrageously organized right now in local races. Get involved in your local races, pick up the phone, knock on some doors, and get out the vote to make sure that all youth are protected. Their future is at risk.
Got more #QuestionsForTrustees that you want answered? DM them to our education facilitator @woodrow_hazel and keep an eye out for your question in this thread!
1/ Despite the violent misogyny inherent to fascism, teenage girls are not immune to being groomed and recruited into hate movements. This week, we're giving you a primer on two subcultures we are most worried about young women getting involved in. 🧵
2/ While the underlying ideology is the same as hate movements that attract teenage boys, the roles that teenage girls and young women embody, and the specific online subcultures they gather in, are often gender-specific.
3/ Aspiring tradwives - some as young as 12 and 13 - base their personalities on extremely rigid gender roles and fantasize about a future life of homemaking, childbearing, and submitting to their someday husbands.
On July 28th we received a “Cease and Desist” from James Topp or a member of his team at @CanadaMarches. We responded a few hours later to address the falsehoods in the letter and to have a conversation with Mr. Topp like the letter asked. 🧵 antihate.ca/letter_to_jame…
We warned Mr. Topp that he was getting bad intel, and told him to do his own research on Diagolon and Jeremy MacKenzie, providing links and clips. The letter said Mr. Topp wanted to talk, but we never heard back, despite multiple follow up emails and DMs.
Yesterday (Aug 8th) Mr. Topp’s letter was posted on a Diagolon Telegram channel and re-posted by Jeremy MacKenzie. Why did they have a draft copy @CanadaMarches? To what extent is Diagolon involved in your team and organizing?
1/ Christopher Pretula's vile anti-trans tirade on a #HamOnt bus last week led us into the extremely hostile and aggressive world of "IRL streaming," and Pretula's own history of racism, misogyny, and trolling.🧵antihate.ca/man_charged_pa…
2/ Regularly posting to YouTube in short video clips or long streams lasting 5+ hours, Pretula - who streams as "Mr. Bum Tickler" is facing two charges, according to the Hamilton Police, who are seeking to have the incident classified as a hate offence. hamiltonpolice.on.ca/news/hamilton-…
3/ Our investigation into Pretula revealed that he is a prolific member of the online streaming community, IP2. Unknown to most of the public, IP2 is a small but extremely engaged internet community dedicated to taking online trolling into the streets.
🧵We located Veterans For Freedom's 'Camp Eagle,' where the far-right are staging for their Ottawa protests this summer.
In images of the camp posted to Telegram, children are seen holding the Diagolon flag. /1
The farm/camp is located near the village of Dunvegan, in North Glengarry, ON and is approx. an hour outside of Ottawa.
Based on images posted online, the camp has 2 large tents. Posts to social media say there has been a steady presence there since the February convoy. /2
The Diagolon flags spotted at the camp are a concern.
In February, Diagolon was linked to an alleged plot to kill RCMP officers in Coutts, Alberta. /3
🧵 Pierre Poilievre has endorsed the far-right in Canada by endorsing the fake 'freedom' movement. This movement, if it can be characterized by one thing, it's that it wants to see politicians and health officials put on trial for treason and executed. /1
This is the first time in memory that a major Canadian politician has endorsed people who get together en masse to wish for an insurrection and the murder of their political opposition. /2
We watched the Republicans in the United States get taken over by the MAGA movement and QAnon to the point that classic Republicans have to pretend they believe in conspiracies or be torn apart by their own base. /4
@atRachelGilmore Despite some people saying they are not planning to occupy Ottawa, other organizers have previously said they plan to stay throughout the summer.